US officials and presidential candidates have been trying for months to avoid linking reference to Iraq war to policies to be

Weeping among the dead in Iraq's Diyala Province.

 

 

Azzaman, Iraq

Iraq: Caught in an American-Iranian 'Purgatory'

 

"For the past few months, U.S. officials and candidates for the presidency have done all they can to avoid linking progress in the Iraq War to the possibility of talks with Iran. Iraq today finds itself stuck in a purgatory of no-war and no-peace between Iran and United States."

 

By Fateh Abdusalam

                                    

 

Translated By Ahmed Naoual

 

April 17, 2008

 

Iraq - Azzaman - Original Article (Arabic)

For the past few months, U.S. officials and candidates for the presidency have done all they can to avoid linking progress in the Iraq War to the possibility of talks with Iran. Instead, Republican candidate John McCain, a foreign policy hardliner and a warmonger since the Vietnam War when he spent four years in captivity, tried to give a “a new lease on life” to the issue of the Iranian danger by discussing the threat Iran poses over the next five years - roughly the next President's term of office.

 

As always, there is talk of diplomatic sanctions, such as denying the granting of visa's to Iranian leaders for visiting Washington! Or amongst other sanctions that are not only cause for laughter inside Iran but throughout the world, freezing the bank account of the Revolutionary Guard commander who, of all the banks in the world, chose to open a personal or “revolutionary” account at a U.S.-based bank.

 

Libyan ruler Muammar Qadhafi scolds Arab leaders over Palestine, Iraq and other issues, and warns them that after Saddam, any one of them may be the next to be hung by the Americans, at the Arab Summit in Damascus, Syria, Mar. 29.

 

Al-Jazeera TV, Qatar: Qadhafi Scolds Arab Leaders, 'Americans Might Hang You All Like Saddam', Mar. 29, 00:11:35RealVideo

Meanwhile, whenever it detects the slightest softening from Washington, Tehran goes one step further and discloses the completion of yet another “nuclear” milestone, reassured that the danger has passed and that it holds more winning cards than America does, particularly in parts of Iraq and within the political parties that rule in Baghdad.  

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Against this backdrop, Iran will continue its care-free overstepping of all red lines, including threatening Israel with extinction if she dare “open her mouth” … Even as there are no indications of serious Israeli distress of the type that occurred on April 4, 1990, when Saddam threatened to wipe out a mere half of the Jewish State, leaving the other half intact.

 

Iraq today finds itself stuck in a purgatory of no-war and no-peace between Iran and United States. Until it extricates itself from this state of affairs, Iraq will fail to establish its new status as a free nation.

 

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SEE ALSO FROM THIS AUTHOR:

 

Azzaman, Iraq
'War-Mongering Leaders
are Isolated from Iraqis'

http://worldmeets.us/azzaman000174.shtml

 

 

Azzaman, Iraq
In Iraq, Patriotism is a
'Relic from a Prior Age'

http://worldmeets.us/azzaman000173.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US April 25, 3:56pm]